David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries.

Seeing patterns and creating beauty -- data visualization has become an art form. Meet pioneering artists who use spreadsheets, archives and digital data as their paints and canvas.

It's the age of Big Data. But what, exactly, do we do with all this information? These talks explore practical, ethical -- and spectacularly visual -- ways to understand near-infinite data.

Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers is terribly limited, says data visualization expert Alan Smith. In this delightful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we know and what we think we know.

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.

Stressed about an upcoming presentation? These talks are full of helpful tips on how to get up in front of an audience and make a lasting impression.

What does it look like when someone in Sweden brushes their teeth or when someone in Rwanda makes their bed? Anna Rosling Rönnlund wants all of us to find out, so she sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries (and counting!) to document the stoves, bed, toilets, toys and more in households from every income bracket around the world. See ho...

Medical scans can produce thousands of images for a single patient in seconds, but how do doctors know what's useful? Scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing our data, and hints at the sci-fi-sounding medical technologies coming up next. This talk contains some g...

Using art and technology, Alexander Tsiaras visualizes the unseen human body.

About this event: This TEDxOmahaSalon will focus on the topic of the Statistics and Data Visualization.

Jinha Lee wants to weave digital computing into the flow of our physical reality.

Tommy McCall specializes in presenting complex and rich data sets.

César Hidalgo studies how teams, cities and nations learn.

Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play.

How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data -- from languages to dynasties -- using trees and networks of information. It's a fascinating history of visua...

Anders Ynnerman studies the fundamental aspects of computer graphics and visualization, in particular large scale and complex data sets with a focus on volume rendering and multi-modal interaction.

About this event: we have shown a TEDMED Talk about data visualization and implications for the future of Medicine. This will be followed by a debate with the audience. The speaker of the TEDMED Talk, Mariano Vazquez, was in the room taking questions,

In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly good news—snaps into sharp focus.

About this event: Our first TEDx Event is about what HAPPENED to you. It starts with your specific incident or experience so called "HAPPENING". So the discussion starts with a personal experience but it ends with a full message brought by the speaker. We have a Korean traditional Bow maker who is only 16, World class expert in data visualization, and a passionat...

We live in a sea of data -- and visualizations can help us understand the movement of individual waves. Great data visualizations can gather up enormous volumes of information, revealing the (sometimes sublimely beautiful) patterns underneath. Next week at TED2015, Manuel Lima (founder of Visual Complexity) will explore how one particular...

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

Using advanced data analysis tools, Rajiv Maheswaran and Second Spectrum help make basketball teams smarter.

Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives.

About this event: Our topic is ' Live in _____ '. To express the inclusion of various ideas, we put that blank on the topic. This may sound broadly, but what we want to talk about in this topic is ‘Live in a different way‘. Let's focus on ‘different’ first. What does it mean to live differently? You may live in a different name, choose something different, choos...

Giorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. She challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas.

About this event: The concentration of my event is on what the role or fuction of the sensitivity in the process of the education.That os to say, when we mostly focus on the reason factor during education, I want to say that the inspiration and harvest from education is also available in ways of which mobilize our perpetuals or feelings such as vision,hearing,tou...

Thomas Goetz is the co-founder of Iodine and author of "The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine.”

About this event: At TEDxTheHague, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Alan Smith uses interactive graphics and statistics to breathe new life into how data is presented.